Values in Ivan Argunov rest in the mid-range - neither dramatically lit nor steeped in shadow. Warmth dominates - the palette of Ivan Argunov leans heavily on the yellow-orange-red arc of the colour wheel. Saturation is deliberately withheld - the beauty here lies in the near-monochromatic gradations rather than colour difference. #1C284F functions as the palette's exclamation mark: highest chroma, lowest percentage (4.0%). At 59 units of value range, the palette has the tonal breadth to sustain complex spatial readings. These proportions encode Ivan Argunov's instinctive sense of how much of each quality the eye can hold.